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Lack of capability for task

"As we have seen, this could be due to the skill not being required during the training process (perhaps due to issues with the training data) or because the learnt skill was quite brittle and was not generalisable to a new situation (lack of robustness to distributional shift). In particular, advanced AI assistants may not have the capability to represent complex concepts that are pertinent to their own ethical i...

AI Risk7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations7.3 > Lack of capability or robustness1 - Pre-deployment

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Techniques1Attack methods connected to this risk.
Mitigations5Defenses that may help with related attacks.
Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & LimitationsThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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"As we have seen, this could be due to the skill not being required during the training process (perhaps due to issues with the training data) or because the learnt skill was quite brittle and was not generalisable to a new situation (lack of robustness to distributional shift). In particular, advanced AI assistants may not have the capability to represent complex concepts that are pertinent to their own ethical impact, for example the concept of 'benefitting the user' or 'when the user asks' or representing 'the way in which a user expects to be benefitted'."

Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations
Subdomain7.3 > Lack of capability or robustness
Entity2 - AI
Intent2 - Unintentional
Timing1 - Pre-deployment
CategoryCapability failures
SubcategoryLack of capability for task

Suggested mitigations

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Code Signing

Deployment
LifecycleDeploymentCategoryTechnical - Cyber

Vulnerability Scanning

ML Model EngineeringData Preparation
LifecycleML Model Engineering + 1 moreCategoryTechnical - Cyber

User Training

Business and Data UnderstandingData Preparation+4 more
LifecycleBusiness and Data Understanding + 5 moreCategoryPolicy

AI Bill of Materials

Business and Data UnderstandingData Preparation+1 more
LifecycleBusiness and Data Understanding + 2 moreCategoryPolicy

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